Joe Biden & 2020 Election: Luckiest Politician Ever

Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has faced a number of tragedies in his personal life. But if he wins the presidency today, he will have been the luckiest politician in American history.

1972: Biden only wins his first Senate race Delaware after Richard Nixon misguidedly convinces incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, who had announced he would be retiring, to run again. It is also the first Senate election in which 18-year-olds could vote. Biden’s argument: Boggs, at the age of 63 — 14 years younger than Biden is today — was over the hill. The timing worked out well for then-unknown candidate, who thereafter basically runs for a House-sized congressional seat every six years until 2009. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)

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Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has faced a number of tragedies in his personal life. But if he wins the presidency today, he will have been the luckiest politician in American history.

1972: Biden only wins his first Senate race Delaware after Richard Nixon misguidedly convinces incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, who had announced he would be retiring, to run again. It is also the first Senate election in which 18-year-olds could vote. Biden’s argument: Boggs, at the age of 63 — 14 years younger than Biden is today — was over the hill. The timing worked out well for then-unknown candidate, who thereafter basically runs for a House-sized congressional seat every six years until 2009. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)